Fun with Maths and Monster Project

We have had so much fun in 2BP this week. First of all we went to a Fun with Maths workshop in the library where we played with lots of different maths equipment and games to find solutions to problems.

This week we finished building our monster parts and today we worked with 2R and 2M to put the monster all together. Our monster now lives in the library and we invite you to come and meet him. We are now deciding on a name for our monster and Mrs M has sent his photo into the Monster Project.

Prayer Flags and History

This week in 2BP we learnt about Prayer Flags and we all made one of our own. The class joined their Prayer Flags together and they now hang in our classroom.

In our Unit we investigated the history of the Moreton Bay area. We looked at photographs taken in the past of the Wynnum and Manly area and had to write what we could see. We shared our findings with the class and decided that it would have been fun in the past riding horses on Manly beach and living in a tent on the esplanade!

Our Monster making is going well. Our monster parts are looking great and we are getting ready to join our parts with the parts being made in 2R and 2W.

Moreton Bay and Monsters

This week in 2BP as part of our Unit work on Moreton Bay we made dolphin and turtle pictures to decorate our classroom. We also learnt how the Quandamooka People hunted for marine animals in Moreton Bay using canoes, fishing hooks and nets.

Today we started the first step in building parts for the Year 2 monster which is part of the global 2010 Monster Project. We have had much fun planning and designing our monster part with our partner and today we got to look at the materials we had collected and start to think about how to build the part. It was lots of fun!

The Metre, the Bay and a Birthday

Welcome back everybody to Term 4! 2BP started work straight away as we have a very busy and action packed 9 weeks of learning.

This term we are learning about Moreton Bay: Then and Now and will be looking at how this marine environment has changed over time. This week we began by reading some information about the Quandamooka People who were the Indigenous people who first lived in the Bay area. Did you know that Dugong was a favourite of the Quandamooka People? They ate the meat roasted and used the oil from the fat to rub on their skin.

In Maths we learnt how to measure a metre using wooden rulers and rolled newspaper as long as a metre. Can you believe that our classroom is more than 9 metres and our bookshelf is less than 1 metre!

Today we celebrated Mrs B's birthday which will be on Sunday the 10th of the 10th 2010! She shared some very yummy cakes with us and we sang 'Happy Birthday' very loudly. Thanks Mrs W and Ella for baking and bringing the cakes to school.